Nie Mao's early prose mainly focused on hometown, taking childhood life and growth experiences as the main writing clue. They expressed his miss and love of hometown and the people there, and its techniques are mostly narrative, with some arguments and lyrics. In his works, farmers' traditional virtues of diligence, kindness, firm and indomitable spirit are affirmed and their ignorance and backwardness are criticized. He deeply sympathized their misfortunes, sincerely hopes to change their fate. He is grateful to the hometown people who have raised him, and also feels regretful for their closed mind and being far from modern civilization.As a rural marginal man and urban wanderer,the subject spirit and value identity of Nie Mao's prose still fall on his hometown people and land.